28 29 PILGRIM Pedagogy: Education & Training Visions of a PILGRIM pedagogy The pedagogical path – the religious-ethical-philosophical educational dimension for all subjects Perceiving > seeing the world as it is, interconnected • Based on the basic model of the young (Christian) workers, founder of the YCW association, Belgian Catholic worker priest and later Cardinal Joseph Cardijn (1882-1967): See – Judge – Act • Sense arrives via the senses – Viktor Frankl • All five sensory organs, including the 6th sense – Konrad Lorenz Marvel > at everything that is obvious and new • Amazement is the beginning of religion/thinking - Aristotle • Special experience of "to be touched by the finger of God" • Interpretation - Meaning - Significance Being affected > by beautiful and terrible things • Empathy - Letting something touch your heart • Longing for more, for security, abundance, fulfilment • Gratitude and joy Reflect > thinking about causes and facts • Asking questions is the beginning of science/scientific thought • Science: What, Who, When, Where, How • Philosophy / Religion: Where do we come from, Where are we going, Why are we on this earth? Awareness > acquiring new knowledge • Science, permeating life • "Living Consciously – Giving Future" • Knowledge – Conscience – Awareness – Action Establishing relationships > gaining empathy for life • Only the relationship/empathy creates a new quality • Life changes • Education needs relevance to life – the ability to relate • Love for creation: "falling in love with" see St Francis of Assisi and Bill Mollison, Tasmania – permaculture, etc. Novel ways of acting > developing courses of action • Awareness of creation ........... pedagogical task • Responsibility for creation .... ethical impulse • Preservation of creation ....... religious appeal • The *8 Re-s* Die Welt beginnt im Menschen Franz Werfel 2012
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